Safe Margins and Rulers (Simulation included)

Jaris GV

Jaris GV

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Hi folks.
What about a native tool or extra plugin to display SAFE MARGINS and RULERS in editing mode?
It would be something like that:
 

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Thanks. Sorry for replying late. I totally forgot that I had asked this question and today I felt the need of the overlay again today.
Actually what I'm trying to find is safe margins should overlay on my actual windows, not inside OBS studio.

For example a free screen recording software, ShareX gives this overlay when I'm actually doing work in whatever window I want. HereI was scrolling through youtube and I could actually see in realtime what area is being captured in the screen recording.

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archz2 said:
what I'm trying to find is safe margins should overlay on my actual windows, not inside OBS studio.

For example a free screen recording software, ShareX gives this overlay when I'm actually doing work in whatever window I want. HereI was scrolling through youtube and I could actually see in realtime what area is being captured in the screen recording.

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You want to draw on the display, to indicate what's being captured? I think a good proxy already exists for that:
  • For a Display Capture, it's the entire display. The border that you're looking for is made of physical plastic. ;-)
  • For a Window Capture, it's that window. Your border there is the window decoration. If you don't know which window, then you have either an attentiveness problem or a situational-awareness problem. Is *that* what you're trying to solve?
Or do you want a visual indication of where you've cropped a source? That seems easy at first, but as a programmer myself (other things, not OBS directly), it strikes me as exactly the sort of thing that will turn into Pandora's Box in a matter of hours. Do you want to include off-canvas? Rotation? Other sources overlapping? Etc.
Given the free-form nature of OBS's scenes, any number of things can factor into whether a given pixel ends up being visible in the stream or recording, and all of those things must be accounted for explicitly and back-calculated to produce an accurate overlay. How much effort is it worth putting into that, and what happens when (not if) it's wrong?
 
I made my own guides just 1920x1px png with transparent borders (to make it easier to move. Then create a scene called guides and copy that image as many times as needed. Then I nest that scene into my other scenes so it won’t be a huge mess to have to sift through while I am streaming. Hope this helps. It works really well for my vertical scenes.
 
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